CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANT EXAM 2024| ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS| GRADED A+
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set out three strategies needed for increasing
breastfeeding initiation and duration in every country. What are the 3 strategies? - Correct Answer:
Breastfeeding Promotion
Breastfeeding Protection
Breastfeeding Support
Focuses on advantages of breastfeeding on a personal (personal connection), community, country
(amount spent on healthcare), or global level (waste from formula & formula products)
Focuses on the good "advantages" of breastfeeding - Correct Answer: Breastfeeding Promotion
Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure breast feeding's ability to
compete with commercial interests.
Includes addressing improper marketing practices
Addressing breastfeeding in public, at work, jury duty, family law, mothers in prison, etc.. - Correct
Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and implementation
- Correct Answer: Breastfeeding Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases? - Correct Answer: Myocardial
infarction
Metabolic syndrome
Coronary artery disease
Stroke
DMII
HTN
Hyperlipidemia
Cardiovascular disease
, Breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer
Reason #1 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Correct Answer: Unrealistic expectations from
society about motherhood. Along with lack of preparation for what the newborn period would be like.
Reason #2 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Correct Answer: Lack of timely interventions.
Mother's problems at 3-7 days posed the greatest risk for stopping which is when they are home from
the hospital and alone with no support. The fastest drop-off is in the first 10 days following discharge
from the hospital
The International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutions - Correct Answer: An international
health policy framework to regulate the marketing of breast milk substitutes in order to protect
breastfeeding. It was written in response to the marketing activities of the infant feeding industry which
were promoting formula feeding over breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to a dramatic increase in
maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
What does "The Code" do? - Correct Answer: Regulates the marketing of breast milk substitutes which
includes infant formulas and any other food or drink, together with feeding bottles, and teats, intended
for babies and young children. Sets standards for the labeling and quality of products and for how the
law should be implemented and monitored within countries. Aims to make sure that parental choices on
feeding are based on full, impartial information, rather than misleading, inaccurate or biased marketing
claims.
The Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding - Correct Answer: Is intended as a guide for action;
it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families
the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and
responsibilities in this regard of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.
What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally? - Correct Answer: Caregiver and
societal beliefs favoring mixed feedings (believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies
actions/issues are related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)
Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of breastfeeding
Lack of adequate skilled support
Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes rather than promoting support
for breastfeeding
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS| GRADED A+
The World Health Organization and UNICEF have set out three strategies needed for increasing
breastfeeding initiation and duration in every country. What are the 3 strategies? - Correct Answer:
Breastfeeding Promotion
Breastfeeding Protection
Breastfeeding Support
Focuses on advantages of breastfeeding on a personal (personal connection), community, country
(amount spent on healthcare), or global level (waste from formula & formula products)
Focuses on the good "advantages" of breastfeeding - Correct Answer: Breastfeeding Promotion
Focuses on government, manufacturer, and social responsibility to assure breast feeding's ability to
compete with commercial interests.
Includes addressing improper marketing practices
Addressing breastfeeding in public, at work, jury duty, family law, mothers in prison, etc.. - Correct
Answer: Breastfeeding Protection
Focuses on the interaction of "helpers" with family as well as program development and implementation
- Correct Answer: Breastfeeding Support
Women how do not breastfeed are at a greater risk for what diseases? - Correct Answer: Myocardial
infarction
Metabolic syndrome
Coronary artery disease
Stroke
DMII
HTN
Hyperlipidemia
Cardiovascular disease
, Breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer
Reason #1 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Correct Answer: Unrealistic expectations from
society about motherhood. Along with lack of preparation for what the newborn period would be like.
Reason #2 why women do not exclusively breastfeed - Correct Answer: Lack of timely interventions.
Mother's problems at 3-7 days posed the greatest risk for stopping which is when they are home from
the hospital and alone with no support. The fastest drop-off is in the first 10 days following discharge
from the hospital
The International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutions - Correct Answer: An international
health policy framework to regulate the marketing of breast milk substitutes in order to protect
breastfeeding. It was written in response to the marketing activities of the infant feeding industry which
were promoting formula feeding over breastfeeding, which in turn was leading to a dramatic increase in
maternal and infant morbidity and mortality.
What does "The Code" do? - Correct Answer: Regulates the marketing of breast milk substitutes which
includes infant formulas and any other food or drink, together with feeding bottles, and teats, intended
for babies and young children. Sets standards for the labeling and quality of products and for how the
law should be implemented and monitored within countries. Aims to make sure that parental choices on
feeding are based on full, impartial information, rather than misleading, inaccurate or biased marketing
claims.
The Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding - Correct Answer: Is intended as a guide for action;
it identifies interventions with a proven positive impact, it emphasizes providing mothers and families
the support they need to carry out their crucial roles, and it explicitly defines the obligations and
responsibilities in this regard of governments, international organizations, and other concerned parties.
What contributes to low rates of exclusive breastfeeding globally? - Correct Answer: Caregiver and
societal beliefs favoring mixed feedings (believing that breast milk is not enough or that babies
actions/issues are related to the breast milk/breastfeeding)
Hospital and healthcare practices and policies that are not supportive of breastfeeding
Lack of adequate skilled support
Aggressive promotion of infant formula and other breast milk substitutes rather than promoting support
for breastfeeding
